Murat Ertürk
A visual communication designer working mainly on social posters, branding, and editorial design, as well as an exlibris artist. Since 2012, I’ve been working and teaching at Sakarya University as an associate professor focusing on vernacular typography, visual communication design education, and digital publishing.
Received bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Uludag University, doctor of fine arts at Hacettepe University. I’ve been a finalist in several international design events. Awarded eight times, five of which were international. My works have been exhibited in events such as the Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design Golden Bee, Trnava Poster Triennial, Ecuador Poster Biennial, Warsaw Poster Biennial and MadridGráfica.
I’ve also researched the vernacular letterforms in the Turkish cities of Bursa and Sakarya. I’m also an editor who writes articles, translates and publishes a monthly newsletter for the Turkish Typography Society.
Feel free to contact me and say hello. contact@muraterturk.com
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Articles
➚ The sign painters of Sakarya: Cemalettin Vural and the Pilicci family
➚ The sign painters of Bursa
➚ Third eye in evaluation processes of visual communication design education: An artificial intelligence model
➚ From folk painting to graphic design: Numan Balıca and his apprentices in Adapazarı
➚ Basic approaches in visual communication design education: Specialism and generalism
➚ The car painter of Bursa: Enver Ertaban
➚ Vernacular as a design approach in visual communication design
➚ New generation digital reading experience and future of e-book
➚ The sign painter of Sakarya: Enver Yücebalkan
➚ Aesthetic experience in visual communication design and the importance of first attraction
➚ Ethic and its education in visual communication design through the concept of responsibility
➚ On education of typography in Turkey
➚ From graphic arts to communication design: The state of visual communication design departments
Book Chapters Published
➚ Experimental Typography (2023). Selamet, S. (Ed.), Advanced Typography (pp. 30–59). Eskisehir: Anadolu University Press.
➚ Vernacular Typography (2023). Selamet, S. (Ed.), Advanced Typography (pp. 224–243). Eskisehir: Anadolu University Press.
Other Articles, Interviews and Translations
2023 — Enver Yücebalkan: Signs of the Silver Screens, BLAG Better Letters Magazine
2023 — Typographic mistakes with the examples Part 2
2022 — Interview with Murathan Biliktu
2022 — About the paintings on the carriages
2022 — On the meeting of Turkish painter Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu with the car painter
2022 — On the friendship of a car painter with the Turkish painter Abidin Dino in Istanbul in the 1940s
2020 — Interview with Cem Eskinazi
2020 — Interview with Erkin Karamemet
2020 — Typographic mistakes with the examples Part 1
2019 — Fundamentals of typography: Using dashes correctly
2019 — Abstract: The Art of Design documentary and our great terminology helplessness
2019 — Interview with Efecan Serin
2019 — The future of typography [Translation]
Featured Publications and Interviews
2023 — Projector Magazine, No 39, St. Petersburg
2017 — Contemporary International Exlibris Artists, Portugal
Exhibitions
2022 — 13th International Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2022 — 5th International Exlibris Competition. Istanbul
2022 — 14th International Anadolu Calligraphy and Typography Event. Eskisehir
2021 — 10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. North Macedonia
2020 — MadridGráfica20 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2020 — Ecuador Poster Biennial
2020 — International Exlibris Competition: Spirit. Poland
2018 — Ecuador Poster Biennial
2018 — 12th International Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2018 — MadridGráfica18 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2018 — 9th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Art Competition. Poland
2018 — The Seattle Istanbul Poster Show. USA
2017 — 4th Shanghai Biennial of Asia Graphic Design. China
2017 — 7th Contratalla International Biennial of Exlibris. Spain
2017 — XIII International Ex Libris Competition: Ex Libris-Ex Libertas. Bulgaria
2017 — MadridGráfica17 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — 2nd International Organ Donation Poster Competition. Switzerland
2016 — The Seattle-Istanbul Poster Show. Turkey
2016 — Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 12. Russia
2016 — 8th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition. Poland
2016 — 11th International Graphic Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2015 — International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic.
2015 — First International Festival of School of Art and Design (FISAD). Italy
2014 — Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 11. Russia
2014 — 24th International Poster Biennial Warsaw. Poland
2012 — International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic
2012 — 7th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. Macedonia
2012 — 2nd Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-Prints Biennial. China
2012 — 9th International Graphic Competition for Exlibris. Poland
2011 — The 5th Shanghai Fu Xian Zhai International Exlibris Invitational Exhibition. China
2011 — 5th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition Men-Earth-Universe. Gdańsk, Poland
2010 — 12th International Mail Art Exhibition Portrait. Alba, Romania
2009 — 6th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. Bitola, Macedonia
2008 — 4th Contratalla International Biennial of Exlibris. Tarragona, Spain
2007 — 9th International Mail Art Exhibition People and Culture. Alba, Romania
Awards and Accolades
2021 — Honorable Mention at the International Dervish Yunus Emre Exlibris Competition
2020 — Finalist at Ecuador Poster Biennial
2020 — Finalist (Top 60) at Uruguay Poster Festival
2020 — Honorable Mention at the International Exlibris Competition in Cyprus and Poland
2019 — Achievement Award at Sakarya University
2018 — Silver Award at Ecuador Poster Biennial
2018 — Finalist (Top 100) at MadridGráfica18 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — Finalist (Top 100) at MadridGráfica17 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — Finalist (Top 100) at the 2nd International Organ Donation Poster Competition. Switzerland
2015 — Finalist at International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic
2012 — Finalist (Top 20) at Utilita Manifesta 2012 Design Contest: Energy For All. Italy
2012 — Excellent Exlibris at the 2nd Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-Prints Biennial. China
2011 — Honorable Mention at the International Rauf Denktaş Exlibris Competition. Cyprus
2011 — Second Award at the 5th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition. Poland
2009 — First Award at the 4th May Day Poster Competition. Istanbul